[2016-09-23] ET: Google Cloud joins Amazon, IBM in serving blockchain clients

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Google Cloud joins Amazon, IBM in serving blockchain clients

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/security-tech/technology/google-cloud-joins-amazon-ibm-in-serving-blockchain-clients/articleshow/54476733.cms

Google's cloud services will be used to test blockchain technologies for banks, an area where IBM, Microsoft and Amazon have been courting clients for the past year.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group has employed Google servers in a trial of a new blockchain application for clearing and settlement, the consulting firm GFT said Friday in a statement. The company's cloud services will also be used by other bank clients of the firm, Stuttgart, Germany-based GFT said.